And those that were against were usually sent to the Gulag or they disappeared.

Revolt: Jeremy Corbyn was a serial rebel before he became leader (Image: Jeff J Mitchell)

Mr Livingstone needs to remember that Labour's 231 MPs were all put into Westminster by the British people.

And having done that, they expect their MP's to represent their views not the hard-line views of Corbyn and John McDonnell who appear to see the leadership of the Labour Party as a way to push their own Marxist agenda - not to do what's best for the British people.

Let's not forget Corbyn voted against his own Party more than 500 times and marched with rival parties against the Labour government.

So if the call to sack all the dissenters had been in operation then Corbyn would have been kicked out.

And Livingstone himself, who spent a lifetime raging against the Labour mainstream, would have been a political footnote.

Do we really want a Labour Party and a leader that refuses to tolerate dissidents?

The 251,000 who voted for him to become leader represent just 0.5% of the 47million people eligible to vote in this country.

So, not even at a stretch, can it be said that Corbyn and his shadow cabinet are representative of what the British people want.

On the Sunday Politics this week Livingstone said if MP's were undermining Jeremy Corbyn and opposing "the anti austerity measures we want, people should have right to say: 'I'd like to have an MP who reflects my view.' "

The problem is what the Labour Party thinks about anti austerity isn't what most British people think.

Which shows pretty convincingly that Corbyn and McDonnell are out of touch with what many Labour voters think.

And how terrified must those voters be now knowing the moderate MP they know and trust could be kicked out if what he/she thinks doesn't chime with Corbyn and McDonnell's extremist views?

The trouble with all politicians is that while they have no power they pretend they're all about the people.

The minute they get power the little dictator that lives in all of them roars into life and they pursue their own agendas which is exactly what Corbyn and McDonnell and Livingstone are doing.

In the run up to the leadership election Corbyn said: "I'm running for this job because I believe in a coherent party, I believe in a greater democracy for our party and I want to promote changes to bring about a collective approach to the way they do things."

Well, he's failed miserably on all counts.

The party is at war.

His activists seem determined to stamp out anything that resembles democracy and there's nothing remotely "collective" about wanting to sack people who don't toe the party line.